Dan Anderson was an African-American man who was murdered in
Macon, Mississippi
Macon is a city in Noxubee County, Mississippi along the Noxubee River. The population was 2,768 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Noxubee County.
History
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, on May 20, 1927 at the age of 32.
Anderson's father had also been lynched.
Anderson was accused of killing T. C. Edwards, a white farmer from Cliftonville, Mississippi. He was arrested in
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Tuscaloosa ( ) is a city in and the seat of Tuscaloosa County in west-central Alabama, United States, on the Black Warrior River where the Gulf Coastal and Piedmont plains meet. Alabama's fifth-largest city, it had an estimated population of 1 ...
. A mob of 300 to 500 men followed him and fired more than 200 bullets into his body.
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1927 in Mississippi
1927 murders in the United States
Deaths by person in Mississippi
People murdered in Mississippi
Lynching deaths in Mississippi
Racially motivated violence against African Americans
Murdered African-American people
Race-related controversies in the United States
Noxubee County, Mississippi